... matter: "To the victors belong the spoils of the enemy." A notable beneficiary of such spoils and an old friend of Jackson, the infamous Samuel Swartwout was appointed to serve the government as a collector of customs in New York. Jackson ignored his advisors' repeated warnings about Swartwout's untrustworthiness, and the greedy appointee absconded from office with over a million dollars of ... of state's bitter hatred for the monopolistic Bank led him to veto a bill that called for the renewal of the Bank's charter, and thus declaring the bank unconstitutional. This ruling set the Bank...

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